
- Country: Australia
- Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
- Release: 2010-10-01
- Director: Bruce Beresford
- Writers: Jan Sardi , Cunxin Li
- Language: English | Mandarin
- Stars: Chi Cao , Bruce Greenwood (I) , Kyle MacLachlan , Penne Hackforth-Jones
- Runtime: 117 min
- Awards: 7 wins & 20 nominations
- AKA: El prodigio (Chile) , Последний танцор Мао (Russian Federation) , O Último Bailarino de Mao (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , O Ultimo Dançarino de Mao (Brazil) , Mao's Last Dancer (United Kingdom) , O teleftaios horeftis tou Mao (Greece) , Mao's Last Dancer (United States of America) , Mao's Last Dancer (Australia) , Maos sidste danser (Denmark) , El último bailarín de Mao (Spain) , Maos letzter Tänzer (Germany) , 小さな村の小さなダンサー (Japan) , Ο τελευταίος χορευτής του Μάο (Greece) , El prodigio (Venezuela) , Mao's Last Dancer , Harakdan ha'aharon shel Mao (Israel) , Mao's Last Dancer (India) , Mao'nun Son Dansçısı (Turkey) , Maos siste danser (Norway) , Le dernier danseur de Mao (Canada)
- Plot:
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
- IMDB:tt1071812


Mao’s Last Dancer Cast

Bruce Beresford
Director

Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen
Niang

Bruce Greenwood
(I)

Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey

Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster

Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner

Aden Young
Dilworth

Wang Shuangbao

Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kip Gamblin
David